On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg84@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > I'm planning too to try windows on virtualbox. Using Virtual Box, I've got Windows 7 64-bit running as a virtual guest on a Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit host for purposes of testing software I help develop. The machine itself is pretty fast and everything happens quickly in Ubuntu. But Win7 runs like very slow molasses this way, not suitable at all for production work. I've tried it the other way around (Win7 host; Ubuntu 9.10 virtual guest) and didn't notice any performance loss at all in Ubuntu. But since I do almost all of my work in Ubuntu and don't need Win7 except for testing, and because I have several virtual machines for different operating environments for testing purposes (our software is multi-platform), I reverted to running Ubuntu as the host and Win7 as the guest. So based on this experience, I'd recommend that if you want to use Windows for production, run it on bare metal and run Ubuntu on Virtual Box. [more] > But I've searched and searched, and can't find any good examples and such, > how to use vboxmanage and so. > Can you give me step by step guide on how to do it? I've got an iso with > unattended installation. > I want to enable sound, cd rom support, and usb. The open source version of Virtual Box in the Ubuntu repositories does not support USB. For that you'll need the binary version available from <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads>. Unlike the open source version, it has user documentation. The Help file documentation is adequate and is also online in both HTML and PDF formats at <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation>. A critical step in configuring a Virtual Box virtual machine after installing the guest operating system is to install the "guest additions" for that operating system. Without the guest additions, you will lack a lot of expected features such as sound and USB support. If you hit any problems, you'd be far better off asking on the Virtual Box forums or mailing list than asking me. <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community>. There are people there who know far more about Virtual Box than I do. > Also, is virtualbox better than qemu? I haven't tried qemu for years but didn't care for it back then. Likely, it has improved. I left VMWare for Virtual Box because creating and configuring a virtual machine on Virtual Box was far easier for me. But I do know people who much prefer VMWare, so your mileage may vary. Hope this helps and good luck! Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list